C19th Architectural History England and Europe
C19th Architectural History
England and Europe
Key Historical events1789-‐ French Revolu>on1792-‐ Republic declared in France1801-‐ Britain abolishes slavery1804-‐ Napoleon crowned Emperor in Paris1805-‐ Nelson wins BaIle of Trafalgar1832-‐ Great Reform Bill, England1837-‐ Queen Victoria ascends to the throne1848-‐9-‐ Declara>on of the 2nd Republic in France1859-‐ Darwin publishes Origin of Species1876-‐ Alexander Bell’s telephone1878-‐ Edison-‐ incandescent light bulb1901-‐ Queen Victoria dies.
‘… great period of intellectual ques2oning which historians have called The Enlightenment and fuelled by the social and poli2cal and economic upheavals and challenges of a century and a half con>nually made aware, anxious even, of the changes that separated it from the past,
architecture aXer 1750 became self-‐consciously experimental as never before’-‐Bergdoll
Stylis>c dichotomies
Ironbridge at Coalbrookdale
Plan of Edinburgh’s New Town. Kirkwood map, 1819.
Residen>al street, Edinburgh
BaIle of the Styles
‘Architecture owes all that is perfect to the Greeks’
Laugier, An Essay on Architecture, 1753.
Foreign Office, Whitehall. View from St James’s Park with the Clive Steps.
Strawberry Hill. Pain>ng of the library at Strawberry Hill. Horace Walpole’s villa.
Houses of Parliament
Ground floor plan
Monet. Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog, 1904.
Law Courts, The Strand. Photograph c.1890
Natural History Museum. South Kensington.
Leeds town hall. Cuthbert Broderick.
Manchester town hall. Alfred Waterhouse.
Gandy. Bank of England imagined in ruins.
Regents Park
Walhalla. Leo von Klenze.
Pain>ng 1836.
‘Every great period of civilisa>on has leX behind its own style of architecture, why shouldn’t we aIempt to find a style of our own?’
-‐Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Schauspielhaus, Berlin. Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Altes Museum. Museum Insel. Berlin. Schinkel.
Polvtechnicum, Karlsruhe. Heinrich Hubsch. 1833-‐35.
Rundbogens2l.
Adolphe Yvon. Napoleon III Hands Over the Decree Allowing the AnnexaFon of the Suburban Coomunes of Paris to Baron Georges Haussmann in June 1859. 1859
Haussmanian addi>ons to Paris
Les Halles, Paris. Baltard.
Eduard Detaille. Opening of the Paris Opera House. 1875
Gustave CaillboIe. A Rainy Day. 1877
Ringstrasse. Vienna.